Monday, August 26

Today's Learning Goals:

Students will determine the author's purpose and cite specific evidence from the text used to develop this purpose.
RL.10.1, RL.10.2

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Bell Work: Weekly Rhetorical Strategy (Model and Definition)

Copy the model sentence and the definitions on your index card.

"His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked were forever entangled in the mud."

Diction = Word Choice

Denotation- literal meaning

Connotation- feelings, images, and meanings associated with a word

(Turn in HW journal entry from Excerpt 3!)

Discussion and Modeling: The "So What?"

What do I mean by "So what?"
Student Sample Charts

Small Group Practice

Charts

• Question- (Focus on author's purpose)
• It Says...
• I Say...
• And So... (Should get to the "so what")

Gallery Walk and Discuss

Homework

Start journaling from your independent reading novel! Have a journal entry ready to show me tomorrow!